Umoja Community Mosaic is looking to add a Volunteer Specialist to the team in Calgary, Alberta. Reporting to the Executive Director, the right candidate will make an impact on the organization by developing a volunteer program within an anti-racist, strategic framework, while attracting, recruiting, and training new volunteers. This will be a 1-year contract with the potential for extension based on performance and funding.

To learn more about Umoja and its programs, visit umojamosaic.org!

On a day-to-day basis the right candidate will be responsible for:

• Supporting Umoja’s human resources practices as they pertain to volunteers (i.e., hiring, onboarding, and offboarding)
• Collecting volunteer information, availability, skills, and maintaining an up-to-date database
• Using marketing tools such as outreach programs, emails, and volunteer databases
• Organizing and leading on-the-job training
• Matching volunteers to opportunities that suit their skillset and ensuring they understand their responsibilities through proper training
• Keeping schedules and records of volunteers’ work
• Collaborating with leaders and staff to write volunteer policies and procedures, ethics and code of conduct, job descriptions, DEI policies, and planning for the future (with and without a Volunteer Specialist)
• Ensuring the organization’s purpose is conveyed to the public
• Other administrative tasks as required

The right candidate will demonstrate on their resume:

• 3+ years of proven experience in recruitment and volunteer coordination
• Bachelor’s degree in human services or business
• Proficient computer literacy including Google Suite and Microsoft Office Suite
• Interest or experience with community development
• Previous experience in human resources or DEI is considered an asset

During the interview, we will be looking for behaviours that demonstrate:

• Strong communication and relationship-building skills: examples of your ability to communicate effectively and empathetically across all levels of an organization
• Leadership skills; examples of your ability to motivate and encourage others and strong conflict management abilities
• Knowledge of human resources best practices, specifically, in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
• Agreement to a police background check and ability to provide proof of double-vaccinations against COVID-19

Why Umoja Community Mosaic?

• Competitive base salary between $47,000 to $60,000 based on experience and education
• 2 weeks’ vacation time in the first year
• The ability to work, play, learn, and create in a way that accentuates each person’s highest ideals with the goal of a loved community
• Freedom to self-invent in the context of community, where barriers to participation are minimized and explicitly supported

To Apply

Please upload your cover letter and resume in one document. While we thank all candidates who apply, we will be reaching out to candidates who meet the hiring manager’s requirements on their resume.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We live, work, and play in the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Stoney Nakoda Nations (Bearspaw, Chiniki, Wesley), and the Métis Nation (Region 3), and acknowledge all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.

Umoja welcomes diversity within the young people and families we serve, and within our staffing.